The Philosopher And The King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFG

A Philosopher included in the same sentence of condemnation with several guilty persons among whom he had been apprehended sent the following lines composed suddenly in the moment when he was going to death to a certain King whom had ignorantly condemned himA
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Know this O King that if thou shalt destroyB
Me no man's enemy and who have liv'dC
Obedient to the Laws thou may'st with easeD
Strike off a wise man's head but taught the truthE
Hereafter shalt with vain regret deploreF
Thy city's loss of One her chief supportG

William Cowper



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